Hear from Industry CEO on the importance of Business Transformation as the Industry embraces more distributed generation, renewables and electrification.
Moderator: Nick Wagner, Commissioner, Iowa Utilities Board. Learn what various regions are doing with policy to encourage changes to energy delivery system. Hear views on new grid rules and businesses including distributed energy resources. Listen to changes impacting utilities & ongoing regulatory, key & legislative initiatives. David Owens, EVP, Regulatory Affairs, EEI; Greg Bernosky, Director, State Regulation & Compliance, APS; Heather Sanders, Principal Manager, Electronic System Planning Strategy & Engagement, SCE, Michael Carlson, President, Smart Grid North America, Siemens.
Senior utility executives will talk about strengthening Resiliency and Reliability while operating the grid with more distributed resources. Learn how system planning and operations are thinking about their systems with the advent of more automation and integration of microgrids.
Streamlining utility operations, providing new services and information to customers, and driving operational efficiencies as a result of Big Data. Hear the discussion on achievements and lessons learned from the use of this data.
Business models are changing. Come hear how financing models can motivate deployments, new financing models for assets, and the importance of rethinking existing business models.
The National Labs have several projects that can help industry with grid modernization. Come hear what various National Labs are doing.
This panel will discuss the changes occurring as a result of DER and ways utiliites and market suppliers are responding.
Distributed generation, storage, and responsive demand represent a growing and largely uncoordinated set of distributed energy resources (DERs) that can be harnessed to address growing issues with higher penetrations of renewable resources, electric vehicles, and climate change. Transactive energy represents a distributed decision-making technique to effectively and reliably coordinate DERs at scale. New York, California, Hawaii and others are driving change toward transactive approaches. Participate in a discussion of early experience with transactive energy and the characteristics needed for successful DER integration.
The Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) project is a SGIP Priority Action Plan (PAP) addressing multi-vendor, peer-to-peer communication in the field. This EnergyIoT™ framework enables distributed intelligence by leveraging existing information model profiles and IoT standards. OpenFMB is utility-led and will have a real-time interoperability demonstration of microgrid use cases in the Exhibitor Expo outside the meeting rooms on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please be sure to visit and ask questions. Led by Erich Gunther, these panelists are all active members of the OpenFMB project team, each with a little different role and perspective. Join us for a colorful discussion of the history of OpenFMB, the challenges experienced over the past year, the future of OpenFMB, and some interesting perspectives on where the industry is moving with EnergyIoT.
Leaders talk about changes in business models and the need for the rewards and risks to be balanced yet how to incent innovators to participate in the energy space.
Session Topic: Keeping Customers at the Heart of Change
How to make sure that customers stay front and center and are the focus of the benefits our grid modernization efforts.
With growing interest in and deployment of variable distributed generation, microgrids and new market paradigms, effective grid management is an increasing challenge. As these drivers become more prevalent, listen to what these leaders are doing to ensure microgrids and other advances provide real benefits to utilities and customers
As more devices become connected and customers begin to interact with the grid, how do we respond to this? Listen to these leaders and how they think about IoT and their companies role.
Hear from Industry leaders how they are enhancing their customer’s usage awareness, helping customers to save, and making it easier for customer’s engage.
Chair: David Forfia, Vice-Chair: Erich Gunther, Secretary: John Caskey. The SGIP Board of Directors will meet to receive report-outs from SGIP staff and committee leads, address ongoing business, and discuss 2016 planning, including financials and areas of business focus.
Come join your colleagues and the Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) team for cocktails and a live demonstration of our EnergyIoT™ microgrid solution. Use your drink tickets, grab some Nawleans home cookin’, and see the first Internet of Things field application for the power industry!
Chair: Steve Widergren, Vice Chair: Robby Simpson – The Technical Committee is responsible for providing oversight and strategic direction for SGIP technical activities. An overview of SGIP’s technical strategy, including interoperability gaps and directions, will be discussed. The committee will hear reports of the progress and plans of SGIP technical projects managed by SGIP’s Program Management Office (PMO). This includes a review of high profile projects (OpenFMB, test bed survey, and utility cybersecurity issues), other priority action plan (PAP) projects underway, and anticipated entries for the Catalog of Standards (CoS). The meeting will also review the directions of the Standing Member Committees and the Domain Expert Working Groups (DEWGs) and any related organizational changes. This session is open to all members.
Acadian I & II. Chair: Erich Gunther, Vice Chair: Cuong Nguyen. Testing & certification programs & processes accelerating availability of Smart Grid interoperable systems & devices. It has developed processes, as embodied in its Interoperability Process Reference Manual, that provide approaches & best practices for industry test programs focusing on interoperability & promotes widespread adoption of such programs. Discuss current work activities including IPRM standardization effort, PAP 23 (Testing Profile for IEC 61850 – Communication Networks & Systems in Substations, Catalog of Test Program, & Catalog of Testbed, as well as proposed work plan for 2016.
Pelican I. Co-Chairs: David Wollman, Chris Villarreal.The Business and Policy Domain Expert Working Group is the forum for discussions on the business and policy roles and importance of standards, including business and policy needs and their interaction with technical and standards needs for the industry. The BNP DEWG facilitates discussions between regulators, utilities, technical experts, and others to engage in information sharing between the groups, and how technical groups can better interact and engage with business and policy experts. At the BNP DEWG meeting, we will hear from state regulators and utilities on issues of specific interest that impacts the role of standards, and how to best move forward in integrating both sides. Some topic areas will include consumer energy usage (Green Button) and distributed energy resources.
Frenchman I. Chair: Steve Widergren, Vice-Chair: David Forfia, Secretary: David Holmberg. Subgroup of the Technical Committee, offers a collaborative approach to integrating distributed energy resources (including responsive load) with power systems operations by using economic-based transaction concepts. The TECG will review the progress & directions of TE activities in related parts of the SGIP & collaborating organizations. We will discuss the progress made to identify a core set of TE uses cases as representative of the TE interface needs for interoperability demonstrations of TE applications & an analysis of standards coverage, gaps, & future needs usage.
Tremé . U.S. Chair: Dixon Wright. Session will explore how SGIP PAP25 & the future SB-Data Strategy Working Group can leverage compliance to promote establishment of multi-industry Data Sets to enable data interoperability, with uniform cyber security, across all public agencies for compliance with most statutory requirements. Formally adopted & implemented Data Sets, like Green Button, will provide the structure & impetus for private industry to develop innovative data analytics & new products & services for improving access to capital, & for obtaining financial security with better terms & conditions, for renewable projects by better managing risk, & therefore make Solar more Bankable.
Pelican II. Chairs: Ken Wacks & David Holmberg. Review extensive SGIP activities linking smart grids to buildings & homes. Learn about energy management strategies & white papers developed by SGIP Building-to-Grid, Industry-to-Grid, & Home-to-Grid groups.
Acadian I & II
Smart Grid Architecture Committee (SGAC)
Chair: Ron Cunningham. SGAC is responsible for reviewing Smart Grid interoperability standards for architecture best practices; creating and working with other regional and international architecture bodies on an aligned architectural methodology, and associated artifacts; and identifying architectural requirements and making recommendations on emerging Smart Grid requirements such as transactive energy, microgrids, demand response and distributed energy resources.
Pelican I. Group Chair: Andres Carvallo; Vice Chair: Nick Wagner. Open meeting for all general members to attend & see what goes on a regular committee meeting. We will review our activities during 2015 & follow up on items from last meeting.
Pelican II. Chair: Allen Hefner. Address issues related to Smart Grid integration of distributed renewable/clean energy generators & electric storage, initiate priority action plans, while enhancing grid stability, quality & safety.
Acadian I & II. Chair: Suzanne Lightman; Vice-chair: Akhlesh Kaushiva. Smart Grid Cybersecurity Committee (SGCC) is a key working group of SGIP. SGCC launched a joint effort with utilities to develop cyber security guidelines. This workshop is a working session to accomplish that objective. Key utility members of SGCC will provide feedback on how to implement Department of Energy ES-C2M2 (Electricity Sector-Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model) and NIST CSF (Cyber Security Frameworks) in Electric utilities’ business units comprising of generation, transmission and distribution. In addition to the sharing of cyber security experience from utilities to develop the cyber security guidelines, SGCC will develop a work plan for 2016 activities. One new activity will be EnergyIoT security.
Chair: David Forfia. Transactive Energy Decision maker's check-list, Transactive Valuation methods, standard communication messages for crew communications during emergencies & developing an outline of upcoming workshop sessions on Transactive Systems.
Acadian I & II. Chair: Don Von Dollen. Address issues associated with the implementation & adoption of standards & interoperable solutions. This meeting will focus on the issue of migrating from serial communication to IP-based communication for utility SCADA systems. Several utility representatives will make presentations on the challenges they are facing & their strategies for transitioning. Following the presentations, there will be a group brainstorming session on activities that the IMC can launch that will address the challenges of serial to IP migration.
Pelican I & II . Chairs: Stuart McCafferty & Stuart Laval. Vice-chair: Robby Simpson. Project is a Priority Action Plan (PAP) addressing multi-vendor, peer-to-peer field communications. This EnergyIoT™ framework enables distributed intelligence by leveraging existing information model profiles & IoT standards. OpenFMB is utility-led & will have a real-time interoperability demonstration of Microgrid use cases in Exhibitor Expo on Tuesday & Wednesday. During workshop, team will get a report-out on the NAESB OpenFMB framework standards development activity, develop high-level requirements for the creation of an Application Programming Interface (API), & will build a work plan for 2016.
Acadian I & II. Chair: Don Von Dollen. Grid 3.0 is an ad hoc collaboration between several organizations (including SGIP, DOE, NIST, NEMA, EPRI, GWAC, UCA, etc.) to engage stakeholders & develop a roadmap to identify the critical activities needed to achieve the resilient, flexible & highly-interactive grid of the future – Grid 3.0. The motivation for doing this is to promote coordination & collaboration between organizations. This meeting will provide an overview & status report on the group’s activities.
